Library Quote by Alberto Manguel

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am…

— Alberto Manguel

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

— Richard Flanagan

In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary… So I…

— Norman Mailer

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

— Frank Westheimer

“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.”…

— Alberto Manguel

“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is looking for…

— Alberto Manguel

Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or…

— Alberto Manguel

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest…

— Alberto Manguel

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

— Alberto Manguel

“A human is a collection of experiences around him. Travel beyond them. Perhaps towards your inner realms. Its gates are always open.”

— Fahad Basheer

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick